The Latest Trends in CompensationThe PayScale Index is one of the most comprehensive and current trend analysis reports available.

With salary data from millions of employees in industries across the world, the PayScale Index is one of the most comprehensive and current trend analysis reports available.

The PayScale Index follows quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees. In addition to national indices for the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, it includes separate indices for the following:

15 private industries in the U.S.

20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.

Three company sizes in the U.S.

small (under 100 employees)

medium (between 100 and 1,500 employees)

large (greater than 1,500 employees)

19 U.S. job categories.

Six largest Canadian metropolitan areas.

PayScale has performed a detailed analysis of how various compensable factors, like work experience, education, employment setting and job responsibilities affect pay. This analysis is based on PayScale's extensive data of more than 40 million employee profiles, accounting for 250 compensable factors for more than 14,000 unique job titles, which show how the pay of actual workers varies with each of these factors.

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